Lord, crack their teeth! Lord, crush these lions' jaws!So let them sink as water in the sand;...When deadly bow their aiming fury draws,Shiver the shaft ere past the shooter's hand.So make them melt as the dishoused snailLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have given... themselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It m...ay be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.... I must learn to walk this long unlovely wintry way, looking for spectacles, shunning t...he cruel looking-glass, laughing at my clumsiness before others mistakenly condole, not expecting gallantry yet disappointed to receive none, apprehending every ache of shaft of pain, alive to blinding flashes of mortality, unarmed, totally vulnerable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spool spoils the web through a piece of a hundred yards, and is traced back to the... girl that wove it, and lessens her wages. The stockholder, on being shown this, rubs his hands with delight. Are you so cunning Mr. Profitloss, and do you expect to swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave? A day is more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleazy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft, will not testify in the web.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

"It's hard to tell you how I managed it.When I saw the shaft had me by the coat,...I didn't try too long to pull away,Or fumble for my knife to cut away,I just embraced the shaft and rode it out...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »